Rubinius

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Rubinius
Developer(s) Evan Phoenix
Stable release 2.2.4 / February 2, 2014 (2014-02-02)
Written in C++ and Ruby
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Ruby programming language interpreter
License BSD license
Website http://rubini.us/

Rubinius is an alternative Ruby programming language implementation created by Evan Phoenix. Based loosely on the Smalltalk-80 Blue Book design,[1] Rubinius seeks to "provide a rich, high-performance environment for running Ruby code."[2]

Goals

Rubinius follows in the Lisp[3] and Smalltalk traditions, by natively implementing as much of Ruby as possible in Ruby code.[4]

It also has a goal of being thread-safe in order to be able to embed more than one interpreter in a single application.

Sponsorship

From 2007 to 2013, Engine Yard funded one full-time engineer to work exclusively on Rubinius.[5] Evan Phoenix now[6] works at Living Social.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation. ISBN 0-201-11371-6. 
  2. ↑ "Rubinius README". Rubinius Project. Retrieved 2009-02-22. 
  3. ↑ Gabriel, Dick. "Episode 84: Dick Gabriel on Lisp". Retrieved 2011-05-20. "'Well, you know if I took that piece of code and hand compiled it, then that could be an interpreter for Lisp.' So he did that and it surprised John McCarthy and overnight they had a running implementation of Lisp." 
  4. ↑ Nutter, Charles (2008-04-27). "Promise and Peril for Alternative Ruby Impls". Retrieved 2009-02-22. "Evan Phoenix's Rubinius project is an effort to implement Ruby using as much Ruby code as possible." 
  5. ↑ https://blog.engineyard.com/2013/the-future-of-rubinius
  6. ↑ http://blog.fallingsnow.net/2012/03/28/a-new-door-opens/

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